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Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 72

Heavy Rain Falling In Three States

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 4

HEAVY rain is falling in falling in three States--Victoria, N.S.W. and Queensland--and flood warnings are…

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Police Nab Super-crook Who Made Crime Pay Exit "The King" London's first "bottle party" king, Joseph Aaron Isowitzsky, the man who made monkeys out of the cleverest detectives at Scotland Yard and opened the gates to a flood of lawlessness and wild drinking orgies, is now in an English prison

The World's News · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 5

THE Scotland Yard that he had outwitted for two generations, happily watched Joe Isowitzsky ("The King") as he left the dock…

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"Floods" of Coal Claim Denied

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 1

The Coal Commission had no evidence to support statements by the secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. G. W. S. Grant, that…

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Can such things be? Cry above the storm

The Sun · Sunday 30 June 1946 · page 12

IN North Queensland a favorite seaside picnic spot was Scabrae, 10 miles from a prosperous sugar town…

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Floods In Tasmania

The Sun · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 6

HOBART, Monday.--Road communication between northern and southern Tasmania was severed yesterday afternoon, when floods…

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Starvation Now Averted Flood Of Supplies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 3 (A.A.P.).— There would be no mass starvation in the world, except in inaccessible parts of China, said Mr. Herbert…

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Storm In Union Club

The Sun · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 14

Action of the Western Suburbs Rugby Union Club president (Dr. C. Lawson), in dismissing both general and…

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Storm On Teacups; 400 In Wear-Riot

The Sun · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Two salesgirls cried, one fainted and crockery and glassware were smashed when a crowd rushed a Bourke-street store today to buy china at pre-war prices…

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Six Families “Storm” Empty Marine Hut Communists Plan Move

Tribune · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 3

The Australian Communist Party again moved to force speedier Government action the housing shortage when its members helped six desperate families to occupy a…

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Deluge of Eggs for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 2

THERE, were amazing scenes when detectives and customs officials left the Monterey, anchored - off Nielsen Park, after a fruitless search…

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Deluge of Eggs for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 2

THERE were amazing scenes when defectives and Customs officials left the Monterey, anchored off Nielsen Park, after a fruitless search…

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Deluge of Eggs for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 2

THERE were amazing scenes when detectives Customs officials left the Monterey, anchored off Nielsen Park after a fruitless search…

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Deluge of Eggs for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 2

THERE were amazing scenes when defectives and Customs officials left the Monterey, anchored off Nielsen Park, after a fruitless search…

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Deluge of Eggs for Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 2

THERE were amazing scenes when defectives and Customs officials left the Monterey, anchored off Nielsen Park, after a fruitless search…

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Crowd Storm Barrier for League Test Sos Sent By Police

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 July 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday. --Storming barriers erected, around the playing area for the second Rugby League Test at the Exhibition Ground today…

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Flooded out of their garage home

The Sun · Sunday 7 July 1946 · page 7

Ex-Sgt. Luckie and his wife pack their belongings after being flooded out of the home they had made in a garage at Oatley…

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Preference Storm Over Wool Board Posts

The Sun · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 7

Appointment of 23 non ex-servicemen as wool valuers for the Australian Wool Board was "the last straw" on the preference question, Mr. Ken Bolton said today. Mr. Bolton, who is State…

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Flooded River Kills Six

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 3

NEW DELHI, Monday.--The flooded River Narbudda has washed away half the town of Jubbulpore (central provinces), killing six people and 300…

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German Food Crop Flooded

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 2

BERLIN, Monday.--More than 4000 Germans were evacuated last night when flood waters of two eastern Bavarian rivers…

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Flooded River Kills Six

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 14

NEW DELHI, Monday.--The flooded River Narbudda has washed away half the town of Jubbulpore (central provinces), killing six people and 300…

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